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Team Tea and Scones

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2016 9:40 am
by LadyGrey1986
When browsing the old HTLAL forum, I noticed there was a team for learners of English as I second language. I thought it might be nice to resurrect it here :)
Learning a seond language never stops, even at an advanced level.

Re: Team Tea and Scones

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2016 1:44 pm
by Systematiker
I'll be a native speaker godparent, if you want me and there's not more qualified folks who want to do it.

I'm a US-American who has taught ESL in the USA and in Germany. I teach grad school now, primarily theology for a seminary and philosophy for a university (where my main qualifications are, I hold a research doctorate in each subject, but the philosophy one is a DA, so it's more of a generalist's degree) and team teach with the literature department at the uni. I speak standard American English and Blackwater natively, learned Transatlantic as an adult.

I think someone on this board teaches English comp somewhere, though, they may be a good choice.

Re: Team Tea and Scones

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2016 2:38 pm
by LadyGrey1986
That would be really kind of you :)

Re: Team Tea and Scones

Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2017 9:04 pm
by tomgosse
Systematiker wrote:I'll be a native speaker godparent, if you want me and there's not more qualified folks who want to do it.

I'm a US-American who has taught ESL in the USA and in Germany. I teach grad school now, primarily theology for a seminary and philosophy for a university (where my main qualifications are, I hold a research doctorate in each subject, but the philosophy one is a DA, so it's more of a generalist's degree) and team teach with the literature department at the uni. I speak standard American English and Blackwater natively, learned Transatlantic as an adult.

I think someone on this board teaches English comp somewhere, though, they may be a good choice.

Two questions:
  • What is Blackwater?
  • Where and how did you learn Transatlantic?
Thank you,
Tom

Re: Team Tea and Scones

Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2017 5:55 pm
by Systematiker
tomgosse wrote:
Systematiker wrote:I'll be a native speaker godparent, if you want me and there's not more qualified folks who want to do it.

I'm a US-American who has taught ESL in the USA and in Germany. I teach grad school now, primarily theology for a seminary and philosophy for a university (where my main qualifications are, I hold a research doctorate in each subject, but the philosophy one is a DA, so it's more of a generalist's degree) and team teach with the literature department at the uni. I speak standard American English and Blackwater natively, learned Transatlantic as an adult.

I think someone on this board teaches English comp somewhere, though, they may be a good choice.

Two questions:
  • What is Blackwater?
  • Where and how did you learn Transatlantic?
Thank you,
Tom


Blast from the past in this group! It's been dead a while.

Blackwater is a dialect centered around Northern Florida - it shares some commonalities with the general Southern, and interestingly, I've recently found out, some features with Gullah as well.

For Transatlantic, there used to be some youtube recordings of a diction course for transatlantic, but more importantly, watch a lot of old films and repeat. It was way easier for European L2 speakers of English to understand me that way, which is why I picked it up.

Re: Team Tea and Scones

Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2020 7:40 pm
by Aproval
LadyGrey1986 wrote:When browsing the old HTLAL forum, I noticed there was a team for learners of English as I second language. I thought it might be nice to resurrect it here :)
Learning a seond language never stops, even at an advanced level.

Hi, It is my first time here. I'm study English